Liturgical Year 2013-2014, Vol. 1

Advent and Christmas

by Jennifer Gregory Miller and Darden Brock (editors)

Book Description

This first volume of the 2013-2014 Liturgical Year series covers all the days of Advent and Christmas, providing a rich set of resources for families to use in living the liturgical year in the domestic church, that is, in their own families. Resources include biographies of the saints to match each feast day, histories of the various celebrations and devotions, descriptions of customs from around the world, prayers, activities and recipes.
The rich array of liturgical year resources on CatholicCulture.org was developed by two family and liturgical year experts, Jennifer Gregory Miller and Darden Brock. In this series, these resources are gathered together in eBooks, with one chapter for each day in the covered period.
The body of each chapter includes the main biographical, historical and devotional texts for the day, with links to additional prayers, activities and recipes, and to the daily readings for the Mass.
The 2013-2014 Liturgical Year series provides a wonderful way for parents, priests, and religious educators to learn how to get Catholicism into our very bones!

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Liturgical Year

Part I: Advent

Introduction to Advent

December 1st (First Sunday of Advent)

December 2nd (Monday of the First Week of Advent)

December 3rd (Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, priest)

December 4th (Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, priest and doctor)

December 5th (Thursday of the First Week of Advent)

December 6th (Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, bishop)

December 7th (Memorial of St. Ambrose, bishop and doctor)

December 8th (Second Sunday of Advent)

December 9th (Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception)

December 10th (Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent)

December 11th (Optional Memorial of St. Damasus I, pope)

December 12th (Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe)

December 13th (Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr)

December 14th (Memorial of St. John of the Cross, priest and doctor)

December 15th (Third Sunday of Advent)

December 16th (Monday of the Third Week of Advent)

December 17th (Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent)

December 18th (Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent)

December 19th (Thursday of the Third Week of Advent)

December 20th (Friday of the Third Week of Advent)

December 21st (Optional Memorial of St. Peter Canisius, priest and doctor)

December 22nd (Fourth Sunday of Advent)

December 23rd (Optional Memorial of St. John of Kanty, priest)

December 24th (Christmas Eve)

Part II: Christmas

Introduction to Christmas

December 24th (Christmas Eve)

December 25th (Solemnity of Christmas)

December 26th (Feast of St. Stephen, first martyr)

December 27th (Feast of St. John, apostle and evangelist)

December 28th (Feast of the Holy Innocents, martyrs)

December 29th (Feast of the Holy Family)

December 30th (Sixth day in the Octave of Christmas)

December 31st (Optional Memorial of St. Sylvester I, pope)

January 1st (Octave of Christmas and Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God (Holy Day of Obligation USA))

January 2nd (Memorials of St. Basil the Great and St. Gregory Nazianzen, bishops and doctors)